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id="quote-the-parameter-to--name-so-the-shell-wont-interpret-it">Quote
the parameter to <code>-name</code> so the shell won't interpret
it.</h2>
<h3 id="problematic-code">Problematic code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="SC2061.html#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">find</span> . <span class="at">-name</span> <span class="pp">*</span>.txt</span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="correct-code">Correct code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb2"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb2-1"><a href="SC2061.html#cb2-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="fu">find</span> . <span class="at">-name</span> <span class="st">&#39;*.txt&#39;</span></span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="rationale">Rationale:</h3>
<p>Several find options take patterns to match against, including
<code>-ilname</code>, <code>-iname</code>, <code>-ipath</code>,
<code>-iregex</code>, <code>-iwholename</code>, <code>-lname</code>,
<code>-name</code>, <code>-path</code>, <code>-regex</code> and
<code>-wholename</code>.</p>
<p>These compete with the shell's pattern expansion, and must therefore
be quoted so that they are passed literally to <code>find</code>.</p>
<p>The example command may end up executing as
<code>find . -name README.txt</code> after the shell has replaced the
<code>*.txt</code> with a matching file <code>README.txt</code> from the
current directory.</p>
<p>This may happen today or suddenly in the future.</p>
<h3 id="exceptions">Exceptions:</h3>
<p>None.</p>
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